Combined wrapper and article.



Patented June 16, 1914.

G. W. EVANS, JR. COMBINED WRAPPER AND ARTICLE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.19, 1913 GEORGE W. EVANS, JR., OF LUTHERVILLE, MARYLAND.

COMBINED WRAPPER AND ARTICLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 19, 1913.

Patented June 16, 1914:.

Serial No. 785,468.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE W. EVANS, J r., a citizen of the United States, residing at Lutherville, in the county of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined lVrapper-s and Articles, of which the following is a specification.

This inventionrelates to an improved thin sheet wrapper and manner of applying it for the inclosure of an article so that the wrapper shall be self-secured on the article.

An object of the invention is to provide a sheet wrapper blank to inclose an article and so attached to or around the article that the wrapper will remain secured thereon without cords to tie it, or adhesive or gummy substance, or any mechanical device.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 shows one form of a fiat blank of the improved wrapper, and an article resting on the center of the blank in readiness to be wrapped. Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the article and wrapper and the second step taken in folding the wrapper around the article. Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing another step in the operation of folding the wrapper. Fig. 4 is a vertical cross-section through the smaller dimension of the article, and illustrates another fourth step in folding the wrapper. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal side view of the packagethe two loops formed by a part of the wrapper indicate the readiness for the last step in the operation. Fig. 6 is a vertical longitudinal section of the article and wrapper showing the parts after the last step of the operation, to-wit, the two loops having been tucked into the wrapper ends. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the package,- the wrapping of the article being now completed.

In Figs. 1, 2, 8 and 7 of the drawing the parts shown are all drawn to the same scale, and in Figs. l, 5 and 6 the parts are drawn to a somewhat larger scale.

The wrapper, A, consists of a thin sheet of any preferred fabric or material, and said wrapper may be applied to articles, B, as a cake or block of soap, a package of tobacco, a pack of cards, a book, or a small box containing any kind of merchandise. The said article, B, will have the wrapper folded and secured according to the present invention by merely tucking two free ends of the wrapper under the close-fitting part of the wrapper.

The wrapper blank, A, in its flat condit on, see Fig. 1, may be rectangular in outline, and has a plurality of slits, 0, preferably positioned so that the slits will have approximate relation to the corners of the body or article, B, when the latter has been placed at the center of said wrapper as in Fig. 1, preparatory to folding the latter. This may be termed the first step. The broken lines shown on the wrapper blank in Fig. 1, indicate where the creases of the folds are to be made. The effect of the slits, 0, in the edge of the wrapper is to form at the middle of two opposite edges of the blank, two short end-flaps, cl, and thereby leave at each of the other opposite edges of the blank a flap, 6, that extends entirely across the blank.

The next step in folding this wrapper is shown in Fig. 2, where the said two short flaps, d, at the middle are folded first upward over the ends, 7, of the article, B, and then folded again along the crease line, 9, which brings the entire length of the edge, h, of each short fiap down on the top, 2', of the article, B. The extremities, j, of the short end-flaps, (Z, are left for the time being projecting horizontally.

The next step in folding is shown in Fig. 3; here the projecting extremities, j, of each flap, cl, are first folded into the form of two V-shaped prongs, y' that project upwardly as seen at one end of the-article, and then said two V-shaped prongs are bent toward each other and downward and lie flat in contact with the surface of the short flap, (Z, as seen at the opposite end of the article.

The next step in folding is shown in Fig. 4; here the flaps, e, that extend entirely across the blank are brought together over the top of the article, B, as indicated by the inclined broken lines, 70; these flap edges, 6, are then folded together to form what is known as a lock-seam, 0, that lies flat and is pressed down closely in contact with the top, 2', of the article. The look-seam fold, in the present instance, extends in the direction of the greatest length of the article, but that is immaterial.

The next step is shown in Fig. 5. The extremities, Z, of the folded flaps, 6, project at opposite ends of the article, and these extremities are first folded as at m, and then formed into two loops, n, one such loop being at-each of the-ends of the article. :Each folded flap extremity m, of the wrapper is then tucked under the wrapper surface, 32, as seen in the section view of Fig. 6.

The completely wrapped article is shown in Figs. 6 and 7 and the wrapper, A, having been folded as described and its .two ends, m, tucked under the wrapper andbetween the Wrapper and the article, B, is secured. Thus the wrapper is secured without wax, adhesive substance, cord, or any mechanical device. It is intended to apply such wrappers and secure them on articles of great variety as to shape and size.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is An article and a wrapper inclosing the article in combination, and said Wrapper consisting of a sheet of material provided at two opposite edges with slits that form .two opposite end-flaps and two other :two longer flaps folded together and forming a seam which lies on the article, and the extremities of said folded flaps tucked under the folded wrapper surface and between it and the article whereby the wrapper in- 1 closes'the article and is self-secured to its position.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' GEORGE 'VV. EVANS, JR. lVitnesses CHAS. B. MANN, FELIX R. SULLIVAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, I Washington, D. 0. 

